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As the Metropolitan Archbishop of Onitsha prepares to celebrate his 70th birthday, Sir Victor Ononye,Journalist and Public Affairs Commentator,writes on his life and times. On Thursday,23rd November 2023,the grand finale of activities marking the 70th birthday of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Onitsha,Most Rev Valerian Maduka Okeke will take place at the Basilica of the Most […]

No fewer than thirty suspected Yahoo Boys and kidnappers have been arrested in Nnewi, Anambra State by operatives of Nnewi Vigilante Service. The arrest followed raid on two buildings in Obiofia, Nnewichi-Nnewi tagged, “Operation sweep” in line with the Vigilante policy of keeping Nnewi free from kidnappers, armed robbery, cyber crime (Yahoo Yahoo), exploitation of […]

The Special Anti-Touting Squad of Anambra State, SASA recently inaugurated by Governor Chukwuma Soludo, has arrested more touts in parts of Onitsha and environs in addition to more than six hundred they arrested in the first week of its operation. Its Director Mr. Solomon Onwuemene who spoke at the Squad base in Upper Iweka, Onitsha, […]

The Police in Anambra State have arrested major arms dealer dealing illegally on prohibited Firearms in the State. The breakthrough followed weeks of intensive surveillance by operatives of the Command. A statement by the Anambra state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga said that a total of twenty-three Automatic Pump Action Guns and six […]

The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, on Friday, received his certificate of return in Owerri, the state capital, following last Saturday’s governorship election. In his speech, the governor congratulated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for “conducting the freest, fairest, and most peaceful election in the history of Imo State.” The state Returning Officer […]

CP Aderemi Adeoye, the Commissioner of Police in Anambra, has cautioned residents against taking laws into their own hands in the event of crime. Adeoye said the command would no longer condone situations when people engage in jungle justice by lynching suspects to death without trial. DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), […]

The Delta State Police Command has arrested four suspected armed robbers and recovered one AK-47 magazine in Agbor-Obi, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Asaba, the state capital. Edafe disclosed that the command recovered two locally […]

The Anambra State Police Command said it has intercepted two syndicates that specialise in extorting money from unsuspecting members of the public through “deadly” threats. The state police spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, stated this in a statement he issued on Thursday. Ikenga added that police operatives at Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Area and Umunze […]

The Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, through the Anambra State Police Command, has apprehended a 31-year-old man identified as James Rich, for impregnating a 14-year-old girl, who resides in Awka, the state capital. Rich is said to be an indigene of Cross River State, but a resident in Awka, and also a […]

The Anambra State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh has assured of her ministry’s readiness to partner the Anambra State AIDS Control Agency in the fight against the scourge. Speaking while receiving the Anambra State AIDS Control Agency on an advocacy visit in her office, Commissioner Chuma-Udeh stated that the highest scourge humanity has witnessed […]